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29th December 2014

Child Access Rights

Who has automatic rights to access with a child?

When considering who has automatic rights to spend time with a child, the main theory to understand is that of parental responsibility. A mother automatically holds parental responsibility however a father can obtain parental responsibility in three ways:

Supervised Contact

In an ideal world, children should be able to spend time with their parents or significant other people without the need for a third party to be present to oversee that contact.

For varying reasons, it may not be considered to be in a child’s best interest for them to have unsupervised contact. It could be that a parent is considered to be a risk or it could simply be that child has not seen the parent for some time and needs the reassurance of someone they know being present.